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  • SAIMM
    Characterisation of cellular lightweight concrete and timber stope supports

    By P. N. Erasmus, M. Heyns, M. J. Pretorius

    The characteristic of stope supports plays a vital role in the design of the supports. This paper deals with the characterisation of both cellular lightweight concrete and timber supports since both

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Navigating Above-The-Ground Risk In The Platinum Sector

    By A. Lane

    The socio economic risks of mining in South Africa have been emerging for some time now, and have been brought into sharp relief by recent events in the platinum sector. The slow pace of social uplift

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SAIMM
    Checking precision and accuracy of an automatic ore sampler

    Most processing plants use automatic samplers to extract ore aliquots along a producing shift. These aliquots are combined into a sample normally sent to lab analysis. The sampler used in the extracti

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    A review of information on the influence of plan curvature on rock slope stability and its effect on the volume of wedge failures

    By R. Armstrong

    The stability of rock slopes is significantly influenced by their curvature in plan view. The importance of this in open pit mining is indicated by the fact that, in a deep pit, steepening of the slop

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Sulphur From Smelter Gases And Sulphate-Rich Effluents

    By Jannie Maree, Dieks Theron, Ryneth Nengovhela, Patrick Hlabela

    In extracting base metals from ore bodies, sulphide as well as oxide, the main environmental concern is sulphur, whether in the form of sulphurous gases or sulphate in liquid form. Generally sulphur

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SAIMM
    Special General Meeting

    A Special General Meeting of the Institute was held in Kelvin House, Johannesburg on Wednesday, 29th September, 1971. The President, Prof. D. D. Howat opened the meeting at 9.55 a.m. The Preside

  • SAIMM
    Recent Developments In Flotation Reagents To Improve Base Metal Recovery

    By S Sondashi, F. J. Chidley, W. A. Grobler

    Some of the challenges facing the flotation of base metal sulphides are the opening of new and varying ore bodies as well as maintaining essential skills in plants. Flotation reagent research focuses

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SAIMM
    Involvement leadership is fundamental to sustainable success of any behaviour-based safety initiative

    By P. Schutte

    It is evident from most admired companies, globally, that they drive key priorities such as teamwork, customer focus, fair treatment of employees, initiative and innovation into their organisations.

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Comparison of the Efficiency of Plaster Stemming and Drill Cuttings Stemming by Numerical Simulation

    By H. Cevizci

    "Numerical simulation of the plaster stemming method (PSM) was performed and compared with the conventional drill cuttings stemming method (DCSM). Many earlier in situ tests have proved that PSM can u

    May 1, 2019

  • SAIMM
    Electronic Delay Detonators ? A Unique Solution To Pertinent Mining Problems

    By Raphael Banda

    1 Initiating Systems ? a definition An initiation system is a combination of explosive devices and component accessories specifically designed to convey a signal and initiate an explosive charge

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SAIMM
    Spotlight On Chemistry In The Utilization Of The Resources Of Southern Africa

    By R. E. Robinson

    I shall present a concept for the development of the resources of this country and its neighbours that repre¬sents a fantastic challenge to our scientists and entre¬preneurs. This concept offers prosp

    Jan 1, 1980

  • SAIMM
    Navigation and positioning technology in underground coal mines and tunnels: A review

    By Q. Liu, S. Liu, Y. Cui

    To reduce the frequency of mining incidents and improve safety and production efficiency, it is important to develop technology for the autonomous positioning and navigation of mining equipment, witho

    Jun 1, 2021

  • SAIMM
    Risk-based slope design: Insights from the Thabazimbi failure

    By T. Dlokweni, M. Bester, C. Koegelenberg, I. Basson

    Certain degrees of safety, economic, and financial risk are implicit in any mining operation. At Thabazimbi Mine, slope stability was one of the major sources of risk, largely due to data uncertaintie

    Sep 1, 2025

  • SAIMM
    Worker inclusion in equipment development processes in the modernizing minerals sector in South Africa

    By S. Schutte, J. Pelders

    Worker participation in equipment development can result in improved user acceptance and product quality. This paper focuses on worker engagement in equipment development processes in the South Africa

    Feb 2, 2021

  • SAIMM
    Studies of load transfer mechanism for rock-socketed pile

    By P. He

    Abstract This paper introduces tested results of rock-socketed pile in Nanjing, Wuhan and Chongqing. From a force- transfer model, a distribution of axial force for pile-body and inlaid resistance for

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    The Prieska experience: Flotation developments in copper-zinc separation (32d079cb-5827-4a06-957c-029014016ec6)

    By B. R. Broekman, D. W. Penman

    Discussion by P.J Lloydt Broekman and Penman describe (J.S. Afr. Inst. Min. Metal., vol. 91, Aug. 1991, p. 261) the addition of sodium cyanide and zinc sulphate to the flotation feed at Prieska. They

    Jan 1, 1991

  • SAIMM
    Letseng Mine No. 2 Plant Project -A Process Engineering And Design Review

    Bateman Engineering managed the establishment of a second diamond treatment plant at the Letseng Mine in the Mokhotlong District of northern Lesotho, about 100 km from the town of Buthe Buthe. Letseng

    Jan 1, 2010

  • SAIMM
    Proceedings of the November, 1968, General Meeting

    The November General Meeting of the Branch was held at the S1. Helena Club on Friday, 15th November, 1968. Mr. J. G. Kirchner (Chairman of the O.F.S. Branch) was in the chair. There were also pr

  • SAIMM
    Uranium Removal from Cobalt Process Liquor

    By N. C. J. Dempers, J. A. L. Parker, R. A. Wildenboer

    More than half of global cobalt reserves are located in the Southern African Copperbelt, stretching over the northern tip of Zambia and southern area of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In these area

    Jan 1, 2023

  • SAIMM
    The 'Doorstopper' and Triaxial Rock Stress Measuring Instruments Developed by the C.S.I.R.

    By E. R. Leeman

    INTRODUCTION The first references in the literature to the so-called C.S.I.R. 'doorstopper' strain cell were made in 1964 1,2,3,4. These were the climax of nearly two years of experimental